I am back to thinking about artificial intelligence, which means that I am once more considering the Stafford Beer joke which is one of the central set texts of this blog:
“When businesses adopted the computer, they tended to use it to automate their existing processes. It was as if they had been given the opportunity to hire Mozart, Einstein and Galileo, then put them to work memorising the phone book so that executives could look up numbers more quickly”. Discuss[1]